Labour gives reasons on Samoa issue
PA Tauranga The Samoan citizenship issue is not a case of citizenship. but of immigration, says the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Mr Lange. He told a party branch meeting yesterday that the ruling of the Privy Council, giving citizenship to up to 100,000 Samoans, should not be allowed to stand. It would be a “breach of trust" to inflict New Zealand citizenship on unwilling people, he said. Mr Lange was explaining the apparent support the Government was getting from Labour members for its •special bill overturning the Privy Council ruling.
It was basic Labour philosophy "never to make it so people have to renounce the citizenship of the country they were nurtured in to make a bob in another one." he said. Samoans should not have to be New Zealanders to visit. New Zealand, Mr Lange said. The real issue was immigration. not citizenship, he said. The Privy Council had honestly interpreted defunct legislation, and Western Samoa had passed legislation against dual citizenship. The citizenship bill was given a second reading in Parliament on Thursday evening.
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